284 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Another CONIFEROUS TREE detected in Australia, by J. S. Browi1t, Esq. 
Our readers are aware that Mr. Bidwill had the good fortune to de- 
tect a new Pine (Araucaria Bidwilli, Hook. in Lond. Journ. Bot., vol. 2, 
p. 48. Tab. 18, 19.) on the hills above Moreton Bay. Capt. Philip 
King, R. N., has favored us with an extract of a letter, written by the 
same gentlemen while travelling in N. W. Australia, at the River 
Mary, somewhere about S. Lat. 25°25’ and Long. E. 152° 80’, dated 
Jan. 2nd, 1849 ; in which he describes the discovery of another Pine, 
the cones of which have fortunately reached us at the moment when this 
is going to press; and these, as far as can be judged without foliage, 
are the cones of the Dammara orientalis (a species hitherto noticed in 
the ** mountains of the ae islands and of Java and Borneo"), or 
of some very nearly allied 
* I arrived here,” writes Ms. Bidwill, “on the 30th December, after 
a journey of at least 280 miles from Brisbane. I lost one horse be- 
longing to Government, owing to the stupidity and cowardice of my 
men, and wasted four days in looking for him unsuccessfully. Afterwards 
I gave sore backs to three horses of my own by being obliged to put his 
saddle upon them. I saw very little of interest, most of the journey 
being over wet and level land. In crossing the Brisbane range I found 
many of the plants first described in Sir T. Mitchell’s last book, par- 
ticularly great numbers of trees of his new Bursaria. The Delabechia 
several places where it grows. I found a new stereuliaceous tree, 
with tetramerous flowers, a scarlet fruit in four carpels with large black 
seeds, the kernel is very good to eat. I first noticed it on Mount 
Brisbane, but it is common here. About forty miles from Brisbane I 
saw a solitary small plant of Erythrina Vespertilio, but no more until I 
entered my own district in the limestone cogntry, where it is com- 
mon on the open ground. A curious species of Capparis first made 
its appearance also the day I entered my territory. It is a small 
tree, with foliage resembling some of the Acacias, and growing sparingly 
over the forest land. The fruit is the size of a large pear, and is eaten 
by the natives, who say it is ‘cobhan budgery. I have one which I 
mean to try to-morrow, as it is beginning to emit a very pleasant 
smell. The name is Teru, or Teroom, or Taroom. I send you two 
fruits, which may perhaps be worth giving to the Museum at Kew, and 
